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RE: [Xen-devel] Hard 6 Meg limit on shared pages

To: "James Pendergrass" <James.Pendergrass@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Hard 6 Meg limit on shared pages
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:24:18 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> James Pendergrass
> Sent: 03 November 2006 17:19
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-devel] Hard 6 Meg limit on shared pages
> 
> I've been doing some stress testing on how much memory a domain can  
> share (after a HD and a NIC front end).
> It seems that no matter what I set ORDER_GRANT_FRAMES (in 
> xen/include/ 
> asm/grant_table.h) and NR_GRANT_FRAMES
> (in linux-2.6-xen/include/xen/gnttab.h) to,  attempting to share 6  
> megabytes or more from any one domain causes really terrible
> errors which very quickly corrupt the virtual hard disk (I 
> have tried  
> allocating up to 32 pages for the grant table and the 
> problems persist).
> 
> A sample of the error messages generated by the kernel:
> EXT2-fs error (device hda1): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode  
> block - inode=346073, block=688192
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda1, sector 5737616
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda1, sector 5505536
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda1, sector 0
> EXT2-fs error (device hda1): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode  
> block - inode=346073, block=688192
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda1, sector 5737616
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda1, sector 5505536
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda1, sector 0
> EXT2-fs error (device hda1): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode  
> block - inode=346073, block=688192
> 
> (sorry I can't get the first error message generated, it scrolls by  
> too quickly and my terminals buffer fills up)
> 
> I've tried this on xen-3.0-testing.hg (3.0.2-3), and xen-unstable  
> trees with the same results.
> 
> I have not managed to find any reason why this should be happening.
> Is this a known issue?
> Is there any additional information I can provide that would help  
> track this down?
> 
> Thanks
> -aaron
> 
I don't know, but I think it would help if you tried compiling Xen with
"debug=y", to allow any debug code to catch some inconsistency that
occurs... 

--
Mats



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